I. What is women's health? Social, biomedical, and feminist models of women's health / Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Adele E. Clarke, and Virginia L. Olesen -- Pattern and puzzles : the distribution of health and illness among women in the United States / Deborah L. Wingard. II. What we share and how we differ. What are the dynamics of differences? / Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Adele E. Clarke, and Virginia L. Olesen -- The last sisters : health issues of women with disabilities / Carol J. Gill. III. Creating women's health : health practices, working and living conditions, and medical care. Women, personal health behavior, and health promotion / Sheryl Burt Ruzek -- The ergonomics of women's work / Julia Faucett -- "Less than animals?" : the health of women workers in garment manufacture, agriculture, and electronics assembly / Virginia L. Olesen -- Access, cost, and quality of medical care : where are we heading? / Sheryl Burt Ruzek -- A note from Louise : understanding women's health in Appalachia / Judy M. Perry. IV. Culture and complexities. Beauty myths and realities and their impact on women's health / Jane Sprague Zones -- Old woes, old ways, new dawn : Native American women's health issues / Ann Metcalf -- Asian/Pacific American women and cultural diversity : studies of the traumas of cancer and war / Karen J. Ito, Rita Chi-Ying Chung, and Marjorie Kagawa-Singer -- Issues in Latino women's health : myths and challenges / Susan C.M. Scrimshaw, Ruth E. Zambrana, and Christine Dunkel-Schetter.

V. Intersections of race, class, and culture. African American women's health : the effects of disease and chronic life stressors / Nikki V. Franke -- Women, power, and mental health / Lynn Weber, Tina Hancock, and Elizabeth Higginbotham -- Who cares? : women as informal and formal caregivers / Virginia L. Olesen -- Older women : income, retirement, and health / Vida Yvonne Jones and Carroll L. Estes. VI. Power and social control. Responses to stigma and marginality : the health of lesbians, imprisoned women, and women with HIV / Nancy E. Stoller -- "You can be safer, but--" : different women, many violences. Women's lived experiences of abuse / Lora Bex Lempert -- The battered women's movement ; Rape / Brandy M. Britton -- A survivor speaks about the Victim Input Program / Sally Pickels -- Anti-lesbian violence / Beatrice von Schulthess -- Sexual harassment / Brandy M. Britton. The ongoing politics of contraception : Norplant and other emerging technologies / Cheri A. Pies. VII. Challenges and choices for the twenty-first century. Research to improve women's health : an agenda for equity / Deborah Narrigan ... [et al.] -- Strengths and strongholds in women's health research / Virginia L. Olesen ... [et al.] -- Conversing with diversity : implications for social research / Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Virginia L. Olesen, and Adele E. Clarke.